Octopus Tracker

Doc_N

TheElectricCow said:

Doc_N said:

Thinking this through, though, the cashback from the credit card, even Amex, would be less than the 2% paid by Santander on the 123 accounts. And the high winter payments would hit the £5 Santander 2% limit. I need to check this through!

Perhaps for the winter months you could get the best of both by setting your own fixed DD at whatever rate you need to maximise the Santander cashback and then clearing any remaining balance each month with the Amex? Then switching back to the variable DD once winter’s over if that’s your preference/more rewarding.

I think that's the best approach. The maximum monthly payment from Santander on energy payments is £5 - which is 2% of £250. So probably the best option (this depends of course on your annual energy bill) is to have a fixed DD of £250 between, say, April and September.  Then change to variable over the winter months using the credit built up, and paying the excess with Amex.

elecmiser

does anyone have experience of Octopus meter engineers who have installed external antenna’s to the smart meter? I live in a new build with super air tightness using fabric barriers, basically the meter is inside a “bacofoil liner” which I think is sporadically compromising signal.

Telegraph_Sam

Stroke of genius or self delusion? Combine south facing solar panels (no batts) with Tracker (not Agile). Means I can cut the lawn in the peak daylight hours without being hammered with peak rate charges. Reverse load shifting in a way.

masonic

Telegraph_Sam said:

Stroke of genius or self delusion? Combine south facing solar panels (no batts) with Tracker (not Agile). Means I can cut the lawn in the peak daylight hours without being hammered with peak rate charges. Reverse load shifting in a way.

You wouldn't be hammered on Tracker anyway, but if you can do it without importing, then that's guilt free. Do it in the afternoon before 4pm and you're probably doing as much for balancing the grid as possible.

Telegraph_Sam

What I save with Tracker is the point I was trying to make. Running my lawnmower off the solars is arguably environmentally at least neutral. Though it is guesswork where the breakpoint (net import vs export) comes

bob2302

Telegraph_Sam said:

Stroke of genius or self delusion? Combine south facing solar panels (no batts) with Tracker (not Agile). Means I can cut the lawn in the peak daylight hours without being hammered with peak rate charges. Reverse load shifting in a way.

I don't follow that, the solar peak would be at 1pm BST, well before peak rate charges on agile.

pete-20-11

bob2302 said:

Telegraph_Sam said:

Stroke of genius or self delusion? Combine south facing solar panels (no batts) with Tracker (not Agile). Means I can cut the lawn in the peak daylight hours without being hammered with peak rate charges. Reverse load shifting in a way.

I don't follow that, the solar peak would be at 1pm BST, well before peak rate charges on agile.

Maybe it's an East West split and it was raining all morning? 🤣

Telegraph_Sam

Alloŵ for slippage into the (late) afternoon when rain gives way to glorious sunshine

movingon

Hi , I am on Tracker for both gas and electricity. IHD working fine. Octopus mini always been temperamental, but has always shown live use. In mid May I received estimated bills for gas and electricity and emailed to query. At first I used the "hello" email address and got someone telling me nothing useful, so I emailed the "smart"  team, but got a reply from the same guy.

I can see for myself that  the smart meter is not sending information down the line and has not done so since the beginning of May. -(I can see that on the Guy Lipman site). I have been told that I will need an engineer visit to power cycle the meters, but have to wait for this.  I have also had the estimated bills suspended and told that I will now be billed on a flexible tariff and I must send a photo of the meter readings to get a new bill. I have phoned and asked if I can send daily readings, but was told that they need half hour readings for smart tariffs. I realise that they have the right to bill on the Flexible tariff if they cannot get the readings "smartly", but it does not seem very fair. Because I seem to be told something different by whoever I speak to or email at Octopus, I just wondered if anyone else has any advice?
Thank you

bristolleedsfan

movingon said:

 told that I will now be billed on a flexible tariff 

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